Smartphone application as a teaching strategy for bronchy hygiene manuals for physiotherapy

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Over the years, health courses have undergone important changes in the speed of innovation, bringing growth, research and improvement to the education process. The introduction of technologies and new teaching methods have contributed to improve and enable learning more efficiently. OBJECTIVE: To develop and apply videos of bronchial hygiene maneuvers, through application, as a teaching tool for physiotherapy students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was experimental and descriptive. Forty students from the supervised physiotherapy internship, from the 7th and 8th periods of 2018, were analyzed. Four judges were also verified with the teaching in physiotherapy course. A mobile app was created, with videos of bronchial hygiene maneuvers, the mobile app was validated by the judges and, finally, the students' opinion regarding the use of the proposed mobile app for the teaching-learning process was verified. RESULT: Regarding attention, relevance, confidence, knowledge, understanding and application, the assessment was satisfactory, totaling 60% of those for physiotherapy students. CONCLUSION: After analyzing the answers, we fully concluded the satisfaction of the judges, noting that the application is practical, easy to understand and can help learning. In the evaluation of the opinions generated by the students, regarding the use of the proposed mobile application for the teaching-learning process, in the aspects, learning instrument, study tool, ease of handling, promoting concrete data for teaching hygiene maneuvers. bronchial aids, assisting in the practice of physical therapy, the significant majority of students considered the evaluated application as excellent.